Fargo -- in that I hated it so much I didn't speak to my then boyfriend for three days!

Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.

I can't think of any others though I know there are a few that stayed with me for days after.

At the time I said it was the scariest movie I had ever seen. Hard to believe that was twenty years ago.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Pawnbroker
Eraserhead

both rattled around in my skull for days and days after I saw them.

Pretty much anything by Lynch or Malick for that matter.

Seriously why did anyone make that movie is beyond me but it did freak me out!

It sounded to me as the wail of a person who changed their mind and didn't want to die but it was too late.

Warning: Not for everyone.



Also: The Deer Hunter
Sophie's Choice
Frances (with Jessica Lange)

Fargo for me as well.

Towards the end, it was as if I wasn't watching a film but instead a documentary. The whole hotel room scene was just too intense. Amazing film, AMAZING performances, never want to see it again.

were taken, but it's still pretty good. But it's really unsettling.

I can never really fathom the true horror of the Holocaust, no matter how much I have read or seen

Especially seeing the smokestack blowing full smoke. Gave me the willies, even though it was a dramatic recreation.

is I tried watching some documentaries on Netflix about the Holocaust, including interviews with some of those responsible, but it is just overwhelming....I can't seem to get past the part not being able to understand why, how it could be done, how it could go on for so long.........and I now I feel the same way when I see almost daily news events of atrocity and horror

I can only take so much and then I have to turn it off......and even then, I am reminded I cannot even take LEARNING about the holocaust, let alone wondering how it was for those who EXPERIENCED the madness. omg

I didn't sleep or a week after seeing that. That scene, the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, totally did ne in.

Both for her raw defiance and for the pure abruptness of her death, followed by Goeth actually implementing her suggestion.

A small moment in a very large film, but still...

freaked me out...

growing up in Cleveland, I knew a few people that survived the camps.

An amazing Korean film with an ending you can't shake.

years and years ago, but I'll never forget it.

Also Platoon and Papillon.

It occurred to me that if I was ever forced to be any one of those people I'd choose the dead guy.

The "dead guy" BTW was the unknown (at the time) Hollywood bit player Kevin Costner.

So painful to watch, knowing people in my life who had gone down that path.

it is a sad movie.

Meryl and Clint was one of the most tender and beautiful scenes I've ever seen.

The wife wanted to watch it so we did. I'm more into action, sci-fi, historical, military and faster paced drama movies but the wife usually isn't so I only watch those when she's gone. When we watch a movie together, it's her choice and that's fine with me.

Breaker Morant
Jacob's Ladder

I'm sure there are others but my brain is iffy this evening.

it's depiction of rural poverty borders on post-apocalyptic, which is what i thought it was about when i first started watching it..

when it came out. The wife and I went to the 25th anniversary release- meh, boring. The Shining, however, gets me every time. The scene with the girls in the hall sends shivers up my spine every time I see it.

Back in the days where Mutually Assured Destruction was in all the headlines, that one was a bit real..!

It certainly popularized Waltzing Matilda!

I think TCM showed it a couple of years ago, and it creeped me out as much as it did in 1974. I never hear "Waltzing Matilda" in the same way again.

Not a drive-in--a theater with comfortable benches where everyone would bring pillows and blankets and a picnic and settle down for a couple of movies (first run and a replay--OTB was the latter).

The terrible message was in sharp contrast to the balmy setting where the film was being shown.

I kept thinking how I'd react in that situation. Still makes me uneasy. What a pleasant night out for you, lol.

contrast, usually. Probably something in the bedroom or beach blanket "boy fights w/girl, then they get married at the end" type thing!

Sometimes they led with a downer--I remember "Devil at Four O'Clock" gave me a horror of active volcanoes--that footage of the lava running down the side of the mountain looked very vivid and close to my less critical eyes!

We didn't have to pay, so we weren't complaining!

Much better than those awful Irwin Allen "where aging stars go to die" epics of the 1970's.

This is the movie that was the direct inspiration for Star Trek Next Gen's episode where Picard was kidnapped, interrogated and tortured by the Cardassians. This is also a movie that "they" have tried very, very hard to disappear. Too bad the full movie is now on YouTube.

My first exposure to the dirt and cynicism of world politics in a war setting.

Sadly, he died much to young from alcoholism. What a gift. Wasted.

Not the movie itself...the acting was meh. But the message.

Pan's Labrynth

Under the Skin

It's s special movie for me.

The first movie I watched through my fingers because it scared me so much, and the second, about zombie cannibalism... where in the end they shot a black man who was the only surviving person of a most terrifying night.

I was a kid when it came out. I was going to see a different film at the movie theater and I walked into the wrong theater. I ended up staying because it looked interesting. It was my first exposure to Shakespeare.

There are probably other films but that is all I can think of right now.

That sounds like something the RW would embrace enthusiastically.

A Clockwork Orange.

Of course, they both came from books.

I half way remembered that I saw it when it ran in the theatres back when I was a kid in 1965. All these years I wondered if I really saw this movie or if it was my imagination. I recently found it online. It looks like it was shot on Super 8 home movie film and it makes Robot Monster and Plan 9 From Outer Space seem complex and thought provoking by contrast. How could John Carradine who plays Dracula and who was a screen veteran of such movies as The Grapes Of Wrath be lured into doing this film?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18d6kl_billy-the-kid-vs-dracula-1965_shortfilms

I was sad for days and days after.

Elizabeth Taylor's matter-of-fact recitation of Montgomery Clift's death intercut with silent scenes of the action she's describing stayed with me for a long time.

It was the first genuine, sci fi horror monster thriller I'd ever seen, and wow, did it pack a whollop! The fact that it stands the test of time as such a brilliantly made film in every category says much for its greatness. It opened up a whole new genre for me, and an appreciation for film making that set the bar very, very high.

Sigourney just signed on for the next installment, and I am thrilled to be in hopes of being thrilled again. One of the best series ever made.

Herzog has a gift for that sort of thing

I think it's very appropriate for these hard times.

I was only a kid, but after watching it, I was so convinced that nuclear war was coming and we'd all die from it, I went into a deep depression for months.

with some other people in the room but, by myself? No thanks, I'll pass.

Many tragic scenes.

Folks took me to see Heston for my 7th birthday, guess they figured a Bible pic was safe. For two years I had nightmares about green fog slipping from under my bed to kill my evil self.

Ok: it's "another Holocaust movie" but it's that and more.

Mini-synopsis: Documentarian goes through 95 y.o. grandma's Tel Aviv apt. after she dies and finds correspondence detailing close personal relationship between bubbe and pretty-high-up -the-ladder Nazis.

What *got* me is the interviews w. the survivors; i.e.: relatives, friends, sons, daughters. Everyone knew about it... i.e. the relationship... but everyone *rationalized* it.

Why the "haunt"? Because it seems we can rationalize almost *anything*.

The people, the animals, the ocean, the music - everything in this movie is a character. It's a fascinating, beautiful movie.

Roan Inish means Seal Island.

from Wiki:

named my cat after the girl Fiona - same determination.

two of the eeriest, most disturbing films ever

I was, like, three years old when I saw it...

Watched this a few times when our kids were little. The younger one was scared of the banshee too.

Should have watched it this week in honor of St. paddy's Day...

Ignoring the plot point about infertile women, its dystopian view of future society looks quite believable from here.

He studies gorillas and over time becomes accepted by the group. One day Hopkins stumbles upon poachers brandishing arms. They attack Hopkins and all of a sudden the silverback gorilla of the group comes to Hopkins defense, protecting him as part of his group, and was killed by the poachers. Hopkins goes berserk. The gorilla's acceptance and protection of Hopkins was so touching and as it turns out tragic.

A friend finally got me to watch it a few years ago, and I don't even like to see it on the Direct TV guide now.

thought I'd post something I hadn't seen yet.

When all the main characters are drinking it up in a bar and singing and raucousing loudly, and one of them goes off and starts playing Cavantina on the piano. And they all stop what they are doing and listen and appreciate the beautiful music. Cut to the next scene, which is a battlefield in Vietnam.

Basically, it was the calm before the storm when the lives of all the characters went to shit.

I was literally perched on the very edge of my seat - it was that good.

And my God, the location ... gloriously, exquisitely creepy. I loved everything about it. I need to see it again soon!

When someone is trying to kill you or ones you love, don't hold back.

Night of the Living Dead was the first zombie movie I have ever seen, and I have loved the zombie genre ever since.

Izo. I thought it was just "okay" when I first saw it, but I kept thinking about it and watching it over and over again, and now it's one of my favorite movies. If you can handle sword violence and subtitles, I highly suggest it. The intro is very strong, but the rest of the movie isn't as graphic.

Schlinder's List
I'm Spartacus

Requiem for a Dream
M. Butterfly - the ending

Mr. Turner - how an odd painter made great art.

The Exorcist - plain freaky.

Chinatown - people fought that much over water, yes they did!

Paradise Lost & its sequels - documentaries about the West Memphis Three, led to their release from prison.

Barry Lyndon - the exquisite imagery.

anything with Nazis scares the hell out of me. "The Killing Fields." "Empire of the Sun." Will not see "Grave of the Fireflies" again because it's too sad and I cry too much thinking of what many people with no family went through to survive without help from their own society after the war.

Will make you cry for days.

That must be a powerful film.

I also love Jan Svenkmajer's Alice

The latter in a good way. The former kind of upset me so much I canceled my grocery shopping plans and went straight home after seeing it.

Watching the beginning of the movie for the first time I thought, oh please, not another bunch of teen-slasher crap. That thought did not last long...

The camera work, awesomely spooky. The horse on the ferry, gut-wrenching. The little girl coming through the t.v., yikes!

"You weren't supposed to HELP her!".

Still gives me chills.

There are others but this one kind of sticks out in my mind.

At Close Range with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken

Let the Right One In... the Swedish tweener vampire movie

When I was a kid, the 70s disaster flicks were trouble for me, especially Earthquake and The Poseidon Adventure

My god, the scene with the dog.

Mulholland Drive, Children of Men, The Ring, um... a few others mentioned upthread.

I'm a sucker for a German Shepherd

The metaphors were not lost on me, which is what stayed with me.

Gah!

I was mentally drained when it finished.

It scared the h*ll out of me.

Lots of long faces exiting the theatre (including mine)

A heart-wrenching film for sure.

The nihilism and the idea that total chance governs so much of our lives -- well, that stayed in my head forever.